So I've had my rig mildly overclocked for a few weeks now, and everything is stable as far as I can tell, but I'd like to get people with much more experience than I have to take a quick look at my BIOS settings to confirm that I've not made any big no-no's.

you got to leave the cpu protection on, increase your bus, drop ram to 1333 or whatever till you find a cpu speed stable,
drop qpi if you cant get it stable. start with linx 5-15min, then if ok, prime it and loop 3dmark.

Wi-Fuzzy

March 10, 2011 08:34 PM

you should have more room left. Intels turbo clocking for this core is 3.2 ghz.

MegaBUD

March 11, 2011 01:39 AM

You should be able to push it to 3.6-3.8 with leaving everything on auto...

I can do 21x180 with 1.25v.

But my rams run a little slower... 1440 instead of 1600, which give me a chance to reduce the timing.

sakage.shinga

March 17, 2011 08:15 PM

Thanks guys. I'm happy with ~3.33GHz for now, might try bumping it to 3.8 in the near future once I'm done playing Dragon Age Origins, which doesn't handle OC'd rigs very well.